Archive for May, 2005

Smoother gradients for print

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Converting images from RGB to CMYK can cause some unpredictable colour shifts (more…)

Isolating transparency of a layer by using another layers visibility

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Layer masks are fantastic and offer the ultimate way to create editable transparency, but sometimes you don’t need them to mask off a layer. (more…)

Shortcuts for working with filters

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Just a few useful shortcuts when working with filters in Photoshop (more…)

Sharpening images the pro way

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

When working with digital images an often overlooked final job is sharpening. (more…)

CS2 in the wild!

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Its an exciting time for us creatives when Adobe launch a new release of our favorite application (more…)

Clone Stamp & Healing Brush Alignment

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

It is sometimes hard to be accurate when using the Clone Stamp (sometimes called the Rubber Stamp) tool (more…)

Swop and reset foreground and background colours the easy way

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

When you are using brushes you often want to swap between foreground and background colours (more…)

InDesign - saviour of the (DTP) universe!

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I’m about 2 weeks into converting from Quark to InDesign now - god I love this program! (more…)

Altering layer masks the quick and dirty way

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

You may find that you need to shrink in a layer mask to ‘de-fringe’ an image, or enlarge it a little to reveal a little more image. (more…)


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